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"Java Edition 1.0" redirects here. For general information about the official release of Minecraft, see Java Edition § Official Release.

1.0.0 is the full release of Minecraft: Java Edition (also known as the second part of the Adventure Update), adding brewing, enchanting, the End, hardcore mode, breeding and more.

It was released at 21:54:50 UTC on November 18, 2011, during MINECON 2011, marking Minecraft (Java Edition) as officially released on that day, after two and a half years of development.

Initially named "Beta 1.9", Mojang instead opted to release this update under the name "Minecraft 1.0.0", but this decision was made after development versions tagged as Beta 1.9 were already released, so all pre-releases for this version are labelled as "Beta 1.9".

Additions

Blocks

Items

Mobs

Ender Dragon
Mooshroom
Villager
Snow Golem
Magma Cube
Blaze

World generation

The End
Mushroom island
Nether Fortress
  • Generates in the Nether
End Portal
  • Generates in strongholds
  • At most 12 Eyes of Ender to activate
  • Takes the player to the End.

Gameplay

Status effects
  • Inflicts positive or negative effects on players and mobs
  • Strength and duration
    • Strength boosts effects
    • Duration controls the time of the effect
Item Repair
  • Two of the same tools/weapons that are damaged in crafting will create one repaired tool/weapon
Brewing
  • Produce potions
Enchanting
Breeding
  • Wheat attracts and feed animals
  • Feeding animals makes them enter "love mode"
    • Hearts will come out of animals while in love mode
  • Breeding will produce baby animals
    • Smaller versions of the parents with large heads that have faster movement and higher pitched sounds
End Poem/Credits
  • Appears after entering the Exit portal in the End

General

Hardcore mode
  • Locks the difficulty to Hard and forces users to delete the world's save data upon death
  • The health bar changes appearance to indicate the game is in Hardcore mode

Changes

Blocks

Doors
  • New sounds
Glowstone
  • Changed material type from "glass" to "stone".
    • A pickaxe is now needed to drop items.
    • Redstone, torches, levers, etc. can now be placed on the block.
    • No longer acts as a redstone vertical (downward) diode.
Water & Lava
  • If water or lava is above a ceiling that is a single block thick, particles of water or lava will drip through, provided the player is within 13 blocks of the ceiling
Flowing Lava
  • When flowing lava hits a water source directly from above, it creates stone
    • Previously, lava would flow through the water
Fence
  • Now connect to solid blocks
  • No longer blocks players from moving onto their space
    • Players can now stand next to them, similar to glass panes and iron bars
Block of Iron
Monster Spawner
  • Darkened texture
Blocks

Items

Tooltip
  • Labels for items have a blue border
Bow
  • Appears larger in third person view when held
  • No longer have an infinite number of uses (385 shots before breaking)
  • Damages in accordance with the charging time:
    • Full charged bows now deals 9♥♥♥♥♥
    • Critical full charge bows deal 10♥♥♥♥♥
    • Medium charged deals 6♥♥♥
  • Additional bow sounds
Ender pearl
  • Now able to be thrown
    • The player will teleport to the Ender pearl's impact location, but take 2 and 1/2 hearts of fall damage
    • Unable to be thrown in Creative mode.
Golden apple
  • Now glows purple in the inventory
Shears
  • Added shear sounds
Weapons and tools
  • Attack damage has been nerfed to make space for the increased damage enchantments (e.g. diamond swords do 3.5 hearts now instead of 5)
  • Tool breaking sounds

Mobs

Health & armor
Endermen
  • Amount of blocks able to be carried by endermen is now limited (see here for the list of blocks)
  • True sounds of Endermen are added, and it’s zombie placeholder is removed.
Skeleton
  • Improved walking sounds
Slime
  • Big slimes (size +4 slimes) have deeper jump sounds
Silverfish
  • True sounds of silverfish are added.
Ghast fireball
  • Changed texture from Snowball to Fire Charge

Non-mob entities

Minecart
  • Added minecart sounds

World generation

Swamp
Stronghold
  • Random loot chests now generate

Gameplay

Experience
  • Can be used for enchantments
  • Each Experience orb is worth one Score Point.
New achievements
Death
  • Amount of experience orbs dropped by players on death now limited
  • A proper score is given based on how many experience orbs players have collected
Armor system
  • New/improved armor system
  • Increased armor durability
View points
  • Pressing F5 toggles between three states (first person, third person back, third person front)
Jumping
  • Slight delay between jumps when holding down the jump button
    • Player no longer bounces between ceiling and floor in two-block-high spaces
Blocking
  • Now moves the player's arm, rather than the sword floating right in front of the player
Sun & moon
  • Sun and moon now rise in the east
  • Moon phases
Rain
  • Changed sound

Trivia

  • Originally, this update was planned to be released as Beta 1.9, but after a few pre-releases were pushed out, it was decided that 1.0.0 would be the version name, and to push the release date back to during MINECON 2011.
    • The 2014 April Fools joke references the version villagers were implemented in as Beta 1.9, even though they were technically a 1.0.0 implementation.
  • Aside from marking the "true" release of the game, this update is notable for being the last update to be developed by Notch before he left the Minecraft team.
  • This update breaks the naming conventions for top-level release updates. For example, were it to follow the same naming scheme as 1.0.0, 1.1 would become "1.1.0", 1.2 would become "1.2.0", etc.
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